We report on intensive care nosocomial pneumonia (NP) in Europe through a review of EU-
VAP/CAP manuscripts: a prospective observational study, enrolling patients from 27 ICUs in …

Bacterial infections are a frequent cause of hospitalization, and nosocomial infections are an
increasingly common condition, particularly within the acute/critical care setting. Infection …

It is important to realize that guidelines cannot always account for individual variation among
patients. They are not intended to supplant physician judgment with respect to particular …

Purposes We set out to assess the safety and the impact on in-hospital and 90-day mortality
of antibiotic de-escalation in patients admitted to the ICU with severe sepsis or septic shock …

Background Antimicrobial de-escalation (ADE) is a strategy of antimicrobial stewardship,
aiming at preventing the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by decreasing the …

Abstract The French Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and the French
Society of Intensive Care edited guidelines focused on hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) …

Antimicrobial resistance (AR) is one of the most serious public health threats today, which
has been accelerated by the overuse and misuse of antimicrobials in humans and animals …

In patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), guidelines recommend antibiotic
therapy adjustment according to microbiology results after 72 h. Circulating procalcitonin …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine whether aerosolized antibiotics, which
achieve high drug concentrations in the target organ, would more effectively treat respiratory …

Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia causes significant mortality in hospitalized or healthy
individuals, and recent increases in morbidity are attributed to the rapid spread of methicillin …